physiology

Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.

"An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure"--Provided by publisher.

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike--strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents--and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities.

A surgeon advocates for an approach to end-of-life care that emphasizes quality of life as the desired goal, rather than extending life at the cost of increased or extended suffering.

Provides advice to young girls with and without intellectual disabilities about their bodies, boundaries, and sexuality, addressing puberty, menstruation, privacy, and more.

Provides advice to boys with and without intellectual disabilities about puberty.

Presents basic information on the functions and operation of the human brain, and discusses unusual conditions, experiences, and abilities related to the brain, such as d?j? vu, premonitions, near death-experiences, telekinesis, hypnotism, and savantism.

Examines the limitations of human memory and mental capacities in the twenty-first-century technology driven society; and discusses how to find a balance between everyday demands and mental limitations of working human memory.

"The author of Second Nature challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence."--Provided by publisher.